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<h1>profile_from_ctd<a class="headerlink" href="#profile-from-ctd" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<dt class="field-odd">Release</dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>2.1</p>
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<dt class="field-even">Date</dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p>Jun 05, 2020</p>
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<span class="target" id="module-profile_from_ctd"></span><div class="section" id="create-a-profile-from-an-ascii-ctd-datafile">
<h2>Create a profile from an ASCII CTD datafile<a class="headerlink" href="#create-a-profile-from-an-ascii-ctd-datafile" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Use the TAMOC ambient module to create profiles in netCDF format for use by 
TAMOC from data in text files downloaded from a CTD.  This file demonstrates
working with the data from the R/V Brooks McCall at Station BM 54 on May 30,
2010, stored in the file /Raw_Data/ctd_BM54.cnv.</p>
<div class="section" id="notes">
<h3>Notes<a class="headerlink" href="#notes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Much of the input data in the script (e.g., columns to extract, column names,
lat and lon location data, date and time, etc.) is read by the user manually
from the header file of the CTD text file. These data are then hand-coded in
the script text. While it would be straightforward to automate this process
for a given format of CTD files, this step is left to the user to customize to
their own data sets.</p>
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<div class="section" id="requires">
<h3>Requires<a class="headerlink" href="#requires" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This script read data from the text file:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">./</span><span class="n">Profiles</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">Raw_Data</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">ctd_BM54</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dat</span>
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<h3>Returns<a class="headerlink" href="#returns" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This script generates a <cite>ambient.Profile</cite> object, whose netCDF file is written
to the file:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">./</span><span class="n">Profiles</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">Profiles</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">BM54</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nc</span>
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